Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences...Language and knowledge are indissolubly connected; they are interdependent. Good work in language presupposes and depends on a real knowledge of things.

Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.

My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!

You can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.

The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.